Compare and contrast the two symbolic discourse genres

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Topic: Resistant Discourses

In Veiled Sentiments Lila Abu Lughod shows how Bedouin women make use of a set of wellknown poetic verses to express feelings in conversation that would otherwise be difficult to express-for example, feelings of desire and anger that contradict normative models for a woman's comportment.

American parallel-a symbolic form that:

1) Expresses things that contradict normative, dominant aspects of American discourse, and that

2) People use to express oppositional, resistant ideas.

In choosing the specific topic for your paper, feel free to draw from a wide range of popular symbolic practices-clothing, adornment, speech, poetic language, music, etc.

Your essay should (briefly and concisely!):

Question 1: Describe the symbolic form (as Abu-Lughod does for Ghinnawa in her Chapter 5);

Question 1: Discuss, as specifically as you can, which American ideology (=ideas, discourses, etc.) your genre resists/opposes, and how the genre does so.

Question 2: Compare and contrast the two symbolic discourse genres (ghinnawa and the symbolic form you chose to analyze), discussing both parallels and any divergences. Does the argument Abu-Lughod ends up making about how ghinnawa functions in Awlad ‘Ali society apply, ultimately, to how your symbolic form functions in American society? Or not?

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